Luckily, he said, he was persuaded to put aside his usual writing accouterments, a pen and an 8-by-11-inch lined pad.
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This " portable digital note pad " looks like a sleek black clipboard, right down to the standard letter-size yellow lined pad of genuine paper that fits on top.
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Then he sat down with sharpened pencils and a yellow lined pad and wrote straight through from beginning to end, without correcting, changing, or rewriting a sentence .